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and blotches of rich red on the larger end, are unlike those of any 

 Honey-eater or other Australian bird. Being forwarded to Dr. 

 Ramsay at the same time with the eggs of CertJdonyx leucomelas, 

 he inadvertently described them at a meeting of this Society in 

 1883 as the eggs of the latter species.* The eggs of this pre- 

 smnedly new species of bird were also exhibited. Mr. G. A. 

 Keartland, of Melbourne, has lately described the eggs of Gerthi- 

 onyx huconields in the " Victorian Naturalist " from specimens 

 taken in Central Australia. 



* Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. Vol. vii. p. 414. 



